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Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan uses FACIAL RECOGNITION cameras to refuse Girl Scout mom entry to Rockettes show - because he's in a battle with her law firm
UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/21/2022 | Aneeta Bhole

Posted on 12/21/2022 4:41:05 AM PST by fruser1

A lawyer who works at a firm involved in a litigation against MSG Entertainment has been booted from a Radio City Music Hall in New York after she was targeted using facial recognition.

Kelly Conlon, 44, was chaperoning her nine-year-old daughter's Girl Scout troop to see the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular last month when she was flagged and asked to leave the venue.

The girl scout mother was then forced to spend 90 minutes wandering around outside in the rain while her daughter watched the show despite holding a ticket, the New York Post reported.

Madison Square Garden CEO James Dolan has allegedly banned anyone who works for any law firm that has a suit against any of his holdings, including the Knicks, Rangers, Radio City, MSG and various restaurants, the outlet reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Alberta's Child
Jim Dolan doesn't pay property taxes for Madison Square Garden.

He can play the shell game with taxpayer money, but at the end of the day, whether in property A or property B, the man has taken taxpayer money to pay for his fun houses.

21 posted on 12/21/2022 5:34:28 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Labyrinthos
There are no red light cameras where I live. And I haven’t seen a single motorist run a red light here since I moved here almost three years ago.

Your problem isn’t a lack of red light cameras. It’s a general degradation of civilized behavior combined with a deliberate government policy of refusing to enforce the law.

22 posted on 12/21/2022 5:36:37 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: fruser1

23 posted on 12/21/2022 5:37:00 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: Alberta's Child

Oh ... I got it. But if the subject being barred from access on a paid ticket were a “protected class of left’s list of aggrieved victims” I’ll bet there would be a court proceeding after the injunction.

Proliferation of cameras everywhere and the actual and potential “abuse” is concerning. Facial recognition is taking this to another level. People have to be informed if their voice is being recorded on the phone when a person calls a business that records calls. But a business that calls you may not record the call without asking the callee for permission to record the call. Leaving the issue aside whether a private interest paid that receives public taxpayer subsidies can use facial recognition to deny entry to a public event ... it seems that before a person buys tickets one should be given written notice and accept the terms of the ticket - that facial recognition is used and may exclude the person at the door.


24 posted on 12/21/2022 5:39:31 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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To: fruser1
>>I don’t think that’s good enough for facial rec. I thought facial recognition data uses the “dead on” image, like you’d get in a passport photo.

This is the attorney's image, from their own website (and each attorney has at least one photo) - do you really think these images are not good enough to use with facial recognition? imo, they are more than good enough, and better than most passport photos.


25 posted on 12/21/2022 5:40:09 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: T.B. Yoits
1. That’s really a stretch. So the public should be permitted into Mar-A-Lago if Donald Trump owns a property anywhere in the U.S. that is subject to a property tax waiver?

2. The tax exemption for MSG may or may not be a good idea, but tax abatement deals are common for commercial and industrial developments all over the place.

26 posted on 12/21/2022 5:42:39 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: Mr. K

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27 posted on 12/21/2022 5:43:08 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: fruser1

“Conlon said she was just a mother taking her daughter to see a Christmas show”

Nice try, lawyer.


28 posted on 12/21/2022 5:47:37 AM PST by BobL
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To: qwerty1234

Facial recognition software emphasizes some portion of facial features. It is not a question of resolution or appearance.

To match a photo there must be a software enhanced picture that is compared with another facial recognition image.

My daughter on the East Coast has a close friend who writes some of that software.


29 posted on 12/21/2022 5:51:49 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Alberta's Child
So the public should be permitted into Mar-A-Lago if Donald Trump owns a property anywhere in the U.S. that is subject to a property tax waiver?

If they paid the ticket to get in, yes. The taxpayers are subsidizing the business and the owner is banning people for personal reasons.

30 posted on 12/21/2022 5:52:09 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Susquehanna Patriot
According the Post #3, the law firm had previously been notified that none of its lawyers would be allowed into MSG-owned venues. That would seem to be good enough for me.

I do agree about the “advance notice” angle for facial recognition technology.

31 posted on 12/21/2022 5:53:07 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: Labyrinthos

“When I travel to places where red light cameras are used for traffic enforcement, I rarely see anyone running the lights. That’s a good thing in my opinion.”

What I like about red light cameras is that the vast majority of the revenue they generate is from people making right turns without coming to a full stop, behind the line, before turning. (a violation made by something like 90% of drivers, at least until until several weeks worth of tickets gets their attention).

Without that revenue, the town where I live probably wouldn’t even be able to afford the cameras, as there’s very little money to be made on people who run them straight-through.


32 posted on 12/21/2022 5:56:06 AM PST by BobL
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To: fruser1

I support this guy. I love it when businesses turn away people.


33 posted on 12/21/2022 6:04:36 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Timber Rattler

You are worried about illegality when you cheer on the massive fraud and graft surround the Ukraine and the Biden Regime. You are a joke.


34 posted on 12/21/2022 6:07:20 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: BobL

China has a home for you.


35 posted on 12/21/2022 6:13:52 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: Texas Fossil

>>My daughter on the East Coast has a close friend who writes some of that software.

Well all I can say is your daughters friend might know a little something about it, but your understanding is quite flawed.

These images are more than sufficient to use for facial recognition.


36 posted on 12/21/2022 6:14:36 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: fruser1
You have to read deep into the article to find the lede:

"The New Jersey based law firm, Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, has been involved in personal injury litigation against a restaurant venue now under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment, for years."

Nope, sorry, you banned an non-litigant, using what was almost certainly Chinese AI (a generic looking woman so it had to be top-notch AI that was pre-loaded with everyone at that firm), from a venue handsomely aided by public dollars? Nope nope nope.

37 posted on 12/21/2022 6:16:02 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: WMarshal

“China has a home for you.”

LOL, I’m just mocking the Karen here trying to push red-light cameras.


38 posted on 12/21/2022 6:19:59 AM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

My apologies. I despise the surveillance police state.


39 posted on 12/21/2022 6:36:15 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: WMarshal

“My apologies. I despise the surveillance police state.”

That’s ok as I often don’t label my sarcasm. In his case, I wanted to respond with a cold dose of reality, in that the cameras are a total scam. Just try finding an article about them that doesn’t mention ‘revenue generation’. That gives it away.

As to the overall surveillance state, I’m, of course, with you. But that’s a lost cause, given the technology (license plate readers, cell phones, facial recognition, etc.) and literally no one willing to do a damn thing about him.


40 posted on 12/21/2022 6:43:26 AM PST by BobL
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